Marine Science Affairs 



Appendix B-2 — Marine Resources and Engineering Development 

 Act of 1966— Continued 



(f) Financial and administrative services (including those related to budgeting, 

 accounting, financial reporting, personnel, and procurement) may be provided the 

 Commission by the General Services Administration, for which payment shall be made 

 in advance, or by reimbursement from funds of the Commission in such amounts as 

 may be agreed upon by the Chairman of the Commission and the Administrator of 

 General Services: Provided, That the regulations of the General Services Administra- 

 tion for the collection of indebtedness of personnel resulting from erroneous payments 

 (5 U.S.C. 46d) shall apply to the collection of erroneous payments made to or on be- 

 half of a Commission employee, and regulations of said Administrator for the 

 administrative control of funds (31 U.S.C. 665(g)) shall apply to appropriations of 

 the Commission: And provided further. That the Commission shall not be required to 

 prescribe such regulations. 



(g) The Commission is authorized to secure directly from any executive depart- 

 ment, agency, or independent instrumentality of the Government any information 

 it deems necessary to carry out its functions under this Act; and each such department, 

 agency, and instrumentality is authorized to cooperate with the Commission and, 

 to the extent permitted by law, to furnish such information to the Commission, upon 

 request made by the Chairman. 



(h) The Commission shall submit to the President, via the Council, and to the 

 Congress not later than eighteen months after the establishment of the Commis- 

 sion as provided in subsection (a) of this section, a final report of its findings and 

 recommendations. The Commission shall cease to exist thirty days after it has sub- 

 mitted its final report. 



INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION 



Sec. 6. The Council, under the foreign policy guidance of the President and as 

 he may request, shall coordinate a program of international cooperation in work done 

 pursuant to this Act, pursuant to agreements made by the President with the advice 

 and consent of the Senate. 



REPORTS 



Sec. 7. (a) The President shall transmit to the Congress in January of each year 

 a report, which shall include ( 1 ) a comprehensive description of the activities and 

 the accomplishments of all agencies and departments of the United States in the field 

 of marine science during the preceding fiscal year, and (2) an evaluation of such 

 activities and accomplishments in terms of the objectives set forth pursuant to this 

 Act. 



(b) Reports made under this section shall contain such recommendations for 

 legislation as the President may consider necessary or desirable for the attainment of 

 the objectives of this Act, and shall contain an estimate of funding requirements of 

 each agency and department of the United States for marine science activities during 

 the succeeding fiscal year. 



DEFINITIONS 



Sec. 8. For the purposes of this Act the term "marine science" shall be deemed 

 to apply to oceanographic and scientific endeavors and disciplines, and engineering 

 and technology in and with relation to the marine environment; and the term "ma- 

 rine environment" shall be deemed to include (a) the oceans, (b) the Continental 

 Shelf of the United States, (c) the Great Lakes, (d) seabed and subsoil of the sub- 

 marine areas adjacent to the coasts of the United States to the depth of two hundred 

 meters, or beyond that limit, to where the depths of the superjacent waters admit of 

 the exploitation of the natural resources of such areas, (e) the seabed and subsoil of 



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